Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer By Fernando Santos-Granero University of Texas Press, 2018 In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka,...
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Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia By Jean Jackson Stanford University Press, 2019 Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining collective control of almost thirty percent of the national territory is nothing short...
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Fire Otherwise: Ethnobiology of Burning for a Changing World Edited by Cynthia T. Fowler and James R. Welch University of Utah Press, 2018 Fire is a daunting human ecological challenge and a major subject in science and policy debates about global trends in land conversion, climate change, and...
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From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans: Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America Edited by Richard Pace Vanderbilt University Press, 2018 From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans broadens the base of research on Indigenous media in Latin America through thirteen chapters that explore groups such as...
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Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia By Mike Cepek University of Texas Press, 2018 In Life in Oil, Mike Cepek reveals how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted. This beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving...
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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Berghahn Books, 2018 Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous...
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